Event

Lunch and lecture: 1:00 p.m.
Q&A: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario, Room 1R40
*Free admission and pizza lunch

*Our thanks to alumni and friends for their generous support of this event.

Registration is required. Please register by January 23, 2012

 All Western and Ivey alumni are welcome to participate in the live webcast at
http://live.ivey.ca/pauljenkins/

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As countries all over the world suffer a crisis of confidence in the face of a deteriorating economic outlook and concerns about the health of sovereigns and banks, a new economic vision is needed to steer them on a path to recovery. Paul Jenkins, former Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, 2003-2010, will discuss the areas where new economic thinking is needed – such as the design and use of economic models, international policy co-operation and global governance – and what the challenges in these areas mean for our future leaders. Join him for an interactive discussion on what tools are needed to support economic recovery in the short, medium, and long term.

1. The economic challenges looking beyond the crisis, such as structural reform for renewed innovation, addressing climate change for sustained growth, integrating advancing countries into the global economy, and the rising inequality of income, education and access to health care
2. Areas where new economic thinking is needed to enable us to meet challenges and what these challenges mean for current and future leaders

Paul Jenkins served as Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, for a term of seven years, from 2003 until his retirement from the bank in April 2010. He was the Bank’s Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank. Jenkins’ duties included overseeing strategic planning, the conduct of monetary policy as a member of the Bank’s Governing Council, and participating in fulfilling the Bank’s responsibilities for promoting financial stability.

He is currently a member of the Board of Governors of The University of Western Ontario, a Senior Distinguished Fellow in the Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University, a Senior Fellow, C. D. Howe Institute; and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation.

Jenkins graduated from The University of Western Ontario in 1971 with an honours bachelor of arts degree in economics. He then attended the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received a master of science degree in economics in 1972. In 1982–83, he continued his studies in economics at Princeton University.

The James C. Taylor Distinguished Lecture in Finance began in 1984, in honour of the late Professor Emeritus James Coyne Taylor, Richard Ivey School of Business. It is funded by Ivey alumni and features outstanding leaders in finance, in recognition of the wisdom and wit Taylor delivered so outstandingly as a teacher and scholar in the fields of accounting and finance. Taylor taught at Ivey from 1949 through to his retirement as Senior Professor in 1980.

A native of St. Thomas, Ontario, Professor Taylor, HBA ’38, began his career upon graduation from Western, joining Clarkson Gordon & Company before accepting a teaching position in 1945 at the University of British Columbia. He served as a member of the Western teaching team at The University of the West Indies in Jamaica, and was a long-time member of the faculty of Western’s Management Training Course. He was granted an honourary degree of Doctor of Laws by The University of Western Ontario in 1981.